We are a community of artists, designers, scientists, researchers, philosophers, and educators who have come together to tell stories that expand our being and becoming. We are focused on creating, curating, and supporting relevant learning projects that target 21st century knowledge & understanding, skills, attitudes, and values.
WE VALUE & PROMOTE
We are a community of artists, designers, scientists, researchers, philosophers, and educators who have come together to tell stories that expand our being and becoming. We are focused on creating, curating, and supporting relevant learning projects that target 21st century knowledge & understanding, skills, attitudes, and values.
WE VALUE & PROMOTE
continuous and accessible learning and growth
multi-perspective and critical inquiry and action
multi, cross, inter, and transdisciplinary opportunities
collaboration, cooperation, and community
OUR FESTIVALS
OUR STORY SO FAR
In 2015, we held our first major event, ‘The Story of Light’ festival, in Goa, India. It and was attended by 15,000 people across ages and walks of life as it was free and for the public. In our next project, ‘The Story of Space’, held in November 2017, we fine tuned our curation and delivered richer learning experiences to a smaller audience of about 5,000. Our next big project is ‘The Story of Mind’, and we’re still synthesizing our learnings to decide the approach and format.
So far, we have engaged 200+ artists, designers, researchers, and educators to create learning opportunities for 20,000+ students, educators, families, and adults. The practical benefits of this work are to bring stories from academia (science and otherwise) into the public eye, promote interdisciplinary collaborations (among the two cultures of sciences and humanities), and provide inspiration and excitement to the youth (empowering them to be critical and solutions oriented). The wider philosophical benefit is to make interdependence visible
While the format of festivals is our starting point, we’ve started smaller initiatives and would like to use the power of the community and network to share these learning experiences so that we can all do more together.
WHO IS “THE STORY OF”
We are registered under The Societies Registration Act 1860 since November 2014. We have adopted sociocracy as a way of working together to be a flexible, collaborative, and spacious learning platform.
Our strategic team includes
Shrinivas Ananthanarayan, President
Jaya Ramchandani, Secretary
Shaira Sequeira Shetty, Treasurer
Shazeb Shaikh, Associate Curator
Rahul Gudipudi, Associate Curator
We engage a dynamic community on various projects.